Off-the-scale cocaine dealer caught with £700,000 of drugs in secret compartment van
Jonathan Kenney travelled across the country in a specially adapted van to try and trick police
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Drug dealer (Image: Devon Police)
A drug dealer was caught with a staggering amount of cocaine driving down from Liverpool to Devon, which a judge said was off the scale.
The trips, across the country during the pandemic lockdown, were part of a large-scale criminal enterprise flooding cocaine from Merseyside to the south coast.
When police stopped his van in August, they had to take it apart to find the drugs, and discovered it was controlled by an electronic system which had to be activated remotely by the driver to open it.
Man ashamed as he admits drunken sex attack on teenager
Richard Grigg pleaded guilty to the historical offence
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A man has been sentenced for indecently assaulting a 16-year-old girl more than a decade ago.
Richard Grigg, 55, from Taunton, said he could not remember the incident because he was so drunk at the time.
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Callum Pillman
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A pair of masked robbers have been jailed for a knife attack which left the victim with horrific life-threatening injuries.
Callum Pillman and Shaun Taylor attacked 19-year-old Marcus Goold in a public park at Ilfracombe in January after arranging to meet to buy cocaine from him.
He suffered five deep knife wounds and only survived because the first policeman at the scene cleared his airway and used chest compressions to bring him back to life.
He lost consciousness and was sure he was going to die.
He was airlifted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth where surgeons removed his spleen and part of his bowel in a life-saving emergency operation.
Ilfracombe park stabbing: Pair jailed for near-fatal attack
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image captionExeter Crown Court heard the pair had intended to rob Mr Goold
Two masked robbers have been jailed for a knife attack which left the victim hanging on to life by a thread .
Shaun Taylor and Callum Pillman set upon Marcus Goold, 19, after arranging to buy cocaine from him in a park in Ilfracombe, Devon, a court heard.
Taylor, 29, of Barnstaple, and Pillman, 21, of Bideford, admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Pillman was jailed for 11 years and four months while Taylor got 10 years and six months at Exeter Crown Court.
24 of the most notorious criminals jailed in the UK in April
Some of the biggest court cases to conclude in the UK over the last month
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Some of the criminals locked up across the UK in April
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